Steering wheel airbag harness help?

[bcaudi]

So I ran into an unfortunate case of mismatched harnesses. Wanted to swap a 4 spoke B7 for a 3-spoke B8, checked to make sure the bag had the nubbins to match the s-line wheel, and only realized that I had messed up as I was trying to fit a yellow/green (new) into a yellow/purple (old) plug.

Old.


New.

I've considered disassembling the units to swap covers, anyone have other suggestions? Could I simply pull the harnesses out and plug them into the other? I fully accept all flaming if I missed a thread that covered this. Thanks!

[AKO]

Pull the two orange and red plugs located on the back airbag, and simply swap over the harness from your 4 spoke.

[glissoar]

This is so weird when I did my B8 S4 wheel swap, I had a yellow and purple connector on my b8 harness, I remembering you telling me you had that problem too AK

[bcaudi]

Pull the two orange and red plugs located on the back airbag, and simply swap over the harness from your 4 spoke.

Looked at that, the newer unit had a little different mount on the orange(?) one, I had a hard time getting them out of the bag, and at the end I justified not wanting to mess with the harness as much as possible. Turns out doing the cover swap is extremely easy, so I went with that. Guess I can /thread my own thread.

[AKO]

This is so weird when I did my B8 S4 wheel swap, I had a yellow and purple connector on my b8 harness, I remembering you telling me you had that problem too AK

Very weird indeed. It must be the 4 spoke airbag! I cant think of anything else.

Looked at that, the newer unit had a little different mount on the orange(?) one, I had a hard time getting them out of the bag, and at the end I justified not wanting to mess with the harness as much as possible. Turns out doing the cover swap is extremely easy, so I went with that. Guess I can /thread my own thread.

Yeah its a bit taller on the orange one but it fits perfectly. So you just swapped the front cover over to the other airbag?

[bcaudi]

Very weird indeed. It must be the 4 spoke airbag! I cant think of anything else.



Yeah its a bit taller on the orange one but it fits perfectly. So you just swapped the front cover over to the other airbag?

Yep! Unscrewed the 3 giant Torx heads, on the previously 4-spoke bag I had to pry up some metal tabs to free the cover tabs, but beside that it was pretty much pull out, swap, push back in.

[Antoineveld]

The easiest way is the swap the old plug, with the new one. I did the same with a 3 Spoke steering wheel of an Audi Q5 on my Audi A4 '06. The wiring harnes had also a different plug, I just swapt them. See my threat:

http://www.audiforum.nl/forum/model-...t=#post1523209

[bcaudi]

The easiest way is the swap the old plug, with the new one. I did the same with a 3 Spoke steering wheel of an Audi Q5 on my Audi A4 '06. The wiring harnes had also a different plug, I just swapt them. See my threat:

http://www.audiforum.nl/forum/model-...t=#post1523209

Thank God for Google Translate thanks for the thread! Hopefully whoever buys my new-available steering wheel can use that to their advantage...

[n3oAcid24]

does switching the harness cause a code????

[bcaudi]

does switching the harness cause a code????

I'm 99% sure it wouldn't. I ended up using the same airbag for this particular project, but when I did it on my A3, I did a whole new bag and nothing ever came up.